Instead of manually going to https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads and download the chromedriver manually.
This code snippet checks for your current chrome version and updates it accordingly.
If chromedriver does not exists, it will download the lastest version.
download_lastest_chromedriver(current_chrome_version="<insert your chrome version here>")download_lastest_chromedriver()| # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
| """ | |
| Created on Sun May 23 14:44:43 2021 | |
| @author: Yicong | |
| """ | |
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| from selenium import webdriver | |
| import sys | |
| import os | |
| import urllib.request | |
| import re | |
| import zipfile | |
| import stat | |
| from sys import platform | |
| def download_lastest_chromedriver(current_chrome_version=""): | |
| def get_platform_filename(): | |
| filename = '' | |
| is_64bits = sys.maxsize > 2**32 | |
| if platform == "linux" or platform == "linux2": | |
| # linux | |
| filename += 'linux' | |
| filename += '64' if is_64bits else '32' | |
| elif platform == "darwin": | |
| # OS X | |
| filename += 'mac64' | |
| elif platform == "win32": | |
| # Windows... | |
| filename += 'win32' | |
| filename += '.zip' | |
| return filename | |
| # Find the latest chromedriver, download, unzip, set permissions to executable. | |
| result = False | |
| try: | |
| url = 'https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads' | |
| base_driver_url = 'https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/' | |
| file_name = 'chromedriver_' + get_platform_filename() | |
| pattern = 'https://.*?path=(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)' | |
| # Download latest chromedriver. | |
| stream = urllib.request.urlopen(url) | |
| content = stream.read().decode('utf8') | |
| # Parse the latest version. | |
| all_match = re.findall(pattern, content) | |
| if all_match: | |
| # Version of latest driver. | |
| if(current_chrome_version!=""): | |
| print("[+] updating chromedriver") | |
| all_match = list(set(re.findall(pattern, content))) | |
| current_chrome_version = ".".join(current_chrome_version.split(".")[:-1]) | |
| version_match = [i for i in all_match if re.search("^%s"%current_chrome_version,i)] | |
| version = version_match[0] | |
| else: | |
| print("[+] installing new chromedriver") | |
| version = all_match[1] | |
| driver_url = base_driver_url + version + '/' + file_name | |
| # Download the file. | |
| print('[+] downloading chromedriver ver: %s: %s'% (version, driver_url)) | |
| app_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) | |
| chromedriver_path = os.path.normpath(app_path+"\\chromedriver.exe") | |
| file_path = os.path.normpath(app_path + '\\' + file_name) | |
| urllib.request.urlretrieve(driver_url, file_path) | |
| # Unzip the file into folder | |
| with zipfile.ZipFile(file_path, 'r') as zip_ref: | |
| zip_ref.extractall(os.path.normpath(app_path)) | |
| st = os.stat(chromedriver_path) | |
| os.chmod(chromedriver_path, st.st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC) | |
| print('[+] lastest chromedriver downloaded.') | |
| # Cleanup. | |
| os.remove(file_path) | |
| result = True | |
| except Exception: | |
| print("[-] unable to download lastest chromedriver. the system will use the local version instead.") | |
| return result |